The IDEAL Consortium facilitates peer-to-peer collaboration and provides technical support to a network of states working to improve distance education and blended learning programming in adult education.

This project used education technology tools to align assessment methods, referrals, and enrollments across education and workforce systems to help job seekers with basic skills access greater opportunities.

World Education worked with the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation in Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, France, India and Indonesia on using technology to transform the learning, work and life outcomes of 25,575 disadvantaged youth, mostly girls and women.

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World Education is partnering with the Providence, Chicago, and Los Angeles Public Libraries to test, document, and disseminate innovative practices to help adults with low skills access flexible, high-quality, technology-enabled learning opportunities.

The EdTech Center advises the newly formed Employment Technology Fund on evaluating possible investments in new technology solutions to increase economic mobility for low-income adults in the United States.

World Education maximizes the Employment Technology Fund’s impact in advancing economic mobility by advising developers on adapting tech tools for lower-skilled workers and by leading field testing to identify and disseminate promising practices.

World Education is conducting research into the procurement and distribution of textbooks in Cambodia using Track and Trace technology to improves the transparency and accountability of the education supply chain.

World Education developed a repository of tech tools that MOVE UP sites funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation can use to support the career advancement, skills acquisition, job retention, and success of participants and their families.

The EdTech Center promotes greater investments in technology and professional development for increasing access to instruction for the hardest to reach and accelerating learning and career advancement for all.

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